There are 7 article(s) tagged riverfront:

• February 2022

  • About Town: New fire headquarters part of a changing Memphis landscape

    The Memphis Fire Department reached a new milestone Monday, Jan. 31, when it hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for its new fire headquarters at its “fire campus” at 2670 Avery Ave.

    By Julia Baker February 04, 2022

• July 2019

  • Renovations start on historic Marine Hospital apartments

    The $18.5 million conversion of the long-vacant Marine Hospital into 71 apartments should be finished by July 1, 2020.

    By Tom Bailey July 23, 2019

• May 2019

  • River park building shows its mettle, allowed to stay

    The Board of Adjustment has given permanent approval for the shipping-container concession stand at River Garden park.

    By Tom Bailey May 22, 2019

• April 2019

  • River cruise firm buys harbor dock, plans to clean cobblestone site

    Memphis Riverboats Inc. has bought the old Cargill dock at the north end of Wolf River Harbor, providing space to declutter its cobblestone operation.

    By Tom Bailey April 05, 2019

• March 2019

  • Spelling out the mysteries of TDZs, TIFs and PILOTs

    The City of Memphis uses some creative methods to fund projects such as Union Row and The Fairgrounds youth sports complex, and those methods are often misunderstood, says a city deputy chief operating officer. 

    By Kyle Veazey March 06, 2019

• December 2018

  • Conaway: Our other riverfront

    OUR FORGOTTEN TENNESSEE. Ray Skinner called me the other day and told me a story. He has a bunch of them.

    By Dan Conaway December 07, 2018

• September 2018

  • City Council to discuss bus lanes on Second and B.B. King, vote on de-annexations

    Second Street and B.B. King Boulevard between Union Avenue and A.W. Willis Boulevard would each have a lane just for buses and other mass transit under a proposal to be discussed by a Memphis City Council committee Tuesday, Sept. 25.

    By Bill Dries September 25, 2018